Abstract
The paper examines the socio-cultural effects of internal migration on migrants’ households in Nigeria. Many factors have been accounted for the socio-cultural extinctions especially in local languages, traditional occupations and all the likes, but little or no attention has been given to the impact of internal migration on the current trend of this social phenomenon. A cross-sectional design as well as a triangulation of economic, push-pull and systems theories was utilized for the study. 160 migrants’ households non-probabilistically participated in a snow ball method of data collection. Pie chart and linear multiple regression analysis were utilized for the study. Findings showed that there was significant relationship between internal migration and socio-cultural variables dislocations. Policy implications were made such that programmes that will facilitate socio-cultural activities at the places of destinations of migrants, as well as discouraging urban concentration of people such as de-industrialization of urban centres and promotes rural development. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n15p494
Highlights
Movement of people from one location to another is a common phenomenon in both developed and developing nations (Oyeniyi, 2013)
This paper examines the socio-cultural changes that occur among a selected migration stream in order to examine the extent to which internal migration has resulted to changes in the socio-cultural variables which include local language, family organization structure or cultural values, traditional food and traditional mode of dressing, among other sociocultural characteristics, as well as the underlying reasons predisposing migrants to move from the place of origin to the place of destination among the people of Akutupa Kiri who are residents of Kabba town in the North-Central zone, Nigeria
From the foregoing and with considerable evidences indicated on the empirical analysis of the study, internal migration has significant and considerable effects on migrants’ socio-cultural variables such as the family structure, traditional occupation, native language, native food, cultural festivals, as well as the migrants traditional attires
Summary
Movement of people from one location to another is a common phenomenon in both developed and developing nations (Oyeniyi, 2013). The idea that one making up his choice and move to a location that promises better opportunities has long been an important part of human race. Migration trends in population dynamics have shown that internal migration rates are increasingly alarming in Nigeria (see Oyeniyi, 2013). For different generations of internal migrants across regions, states, cities, towns and villages orchestrated by differences in education level, socioeconomic and political developments, these socioeconomic variables play important roles in how internal migration impacts upon socio-cultural characteristics of the migration streams. Policy makers and population experts have not paid much attention to this phenomenon across board especially its effects on the culture of the migrants
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